Table of Contents:
  • The contemporary crisis
  • Nothing but a Black thing? The Black freedom struggle in context
  • The Washington-Du Bois conflict: African American social movements in the "Age of imperialism," 1890-World War I
  • World War I and the deepening and blackening of American radicalism
  • From the Great Depression to World War II: the recomposition of White-Black alliance
  • The American century: labor peace, hegemony, and civil rights
  • The crisis of U.S. hegemony and the transformation from civil rights to Black liberation
  • The future of black liberation and social change in the United States.